Table 2.
Description of analysis sample after propensity score matching (n=70 for Family Member sample, n=113 for General Population sample)
| Frequency (%) in full sample |
Frequency (%) in Family Member Sample |
Frequency (%) in General Population Sample |
P-value comparing both samples |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographic | ||||
| Sex | 0.66 | |||
| Female | 97 (67.4) | 48 (68.6) | 74 (65.3) | |
| Male | 47 (32.6) | 22 (31.4) | 39 (34.7) | |
| Ethnicity | 1.00 | |||
| Black | 45 (24.6) | 16 (22.9) | 29 (25.7) | |
| Non-Black | 138 (75.4) | 54 (77.1) | 84 (74.3) | |
| Marital Status | 0.22 | |||
| Married | 126 (68.9) | 45 (64.3) | 81 (71.7) | |
| Not Married | 57 (31.1) | 25 (35.7) | 32 (28.3) | |
| Education | 0.77 | |||
| Not a High School Grad | 10 ( 5.5) | 4 (5.7) | 6 (5.3) | |
| High School | 50 (27.3) | 16 (22.9) | 34 (30.1) | |
| Some College or Tech School |
51 (27.9) | 19 (27.1) | 32 (28.3) | |
| College or more | 72 (39.3) | 31 (42.3) | 41 (36.3) | |
| Town | 0.70 | |||
| In Town | 59 (32.2) | 26 (37.1) | 33 (29.2) | |
| Not in Town | 124 (67.8) | 44 (62.9) | 80 706.8) | |
| Eating Out | 0.61 | |||
| No Meals Out | 96 (52.5) | 37 (52.9) | 59 (52.2) | |
| One Meal Out | 56 (30.6) | 19 (27.1) | 37 (32.7) | |
| Two Meals Out | 27 (14.7) | 13 (18.6) | 14 (12.4) | |
| All Meals Out | 4 ( 2.2) | 1 (1.4) | 3 (2.6) | |
| Mean (SE) in full sample |
Mean (SE) in Family Sample |
Mean (SE) in General Population Sample |
P-value comparing both samples |
|
| Age | 47.7 (0.9) | 47.4 (1.4) | 48.0 (1.2) | 0.74 |
|
Responsibility for Shopping/
Planning/Preparing Meals |
7.5 (0.2) | 7.5 (0.3) | 7.4 (0.2) | 0.76 |
| Family Social Support (FSS) | 12.4 (0.4) | 11.8 (0.6) | 13.0 (0.4) | 0.10 |
| Months Since Last Dr Visit | 4.5 (0.5) | 4.4 (0.5) | 4.6 (0.6) | 0.74 |
| Weekly Hours Watching TV | 13.9 (0.8) | 13.8 (1.3) | 13.9 (0.9) | 0.93 |